Crossword Puzzle Number 2706 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Saber-toothed tigers.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Segmented worms.
17. A small piece of cloth.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. The vein in the center of a leaf.
20. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
25. Disposed or placed in a particular kind of order.
27. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
30. A Scottish word.
31. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
34. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
36. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
40. The capital and largest city of Norway.
41. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
42. Suggestive of the supernatural.
43. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
45. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
47. Any of the three Fates or goddesses of destiny.
48. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
54. Genus of American of east Asian perennial herbs with yellow to orange or red flower rays.
57. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
58. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
61. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
63. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
72. Jordan's port.
75. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
76. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
80. Take in solid food.
81. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
82. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
5. Mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
6. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
7. (Irish) The sea personified.
8. English essayist (1775-1834).
9. Cephalopods having two gills.
10. A doctor's degree in optometry.
11. Of or in or relating to the nose.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
14. Advanced in years.
21. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
23. The organic process of bearing flowers.
26. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile).
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Jordan's port.
32. Away from the right path or direction.
33. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
35. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. A genus of Scolopacidae.
38. (Russian) Small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried.
39. Informal terms for journalists.
44. Chief port of Yemen.
46. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
50. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. Lyrebirds and scrubbirds.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina.
62. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
64. A Loloish language.
65. Anything that serves as an enticement.
66. An inhabitant of Lappland.
67. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
71. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
73. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
74. Provided with artificial light.
78. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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